You know you're middle aged when...

[PollyCreo]

You go out in the morning at the same time you used to come home at 😲

The sun rises very early where I live (not UK) so after the clocks changed I decided to embrace this and go for a brisk 4 mile walk every morning before work 🌞 It is truly lovely, it's warm and I enjoy seeing the sun come up. However it was only 12 years ago I used to be stumbling out of a nightclub at 5.45am and looking for a taxi to get me home 🧐 What has happened to me?

When talking to your dh about the police taking a statement, and you refer to the pc as the little lad!

THIS!

This! The students where I work are wearing the baggy pale-wash jeans that I wore at uni circa 1993.

Even worse, I've spotted kevin-in-corry taches from 1986.

When I hear the term "mid to late century" furniture or clothes being "vintage treasures" - and realise I was born around then

When you go to parents evening and mistake their teacher for a hot, young chap doing teacher training experience.
I'm only 45, where did my youth go!!

My dd bought me a great gadget, it’s a magnifier with a built in led light. Brilliant for reading small print on packets and instructions, finding things you have dropped in dark places ………

I realised I hadn't bought myself anything new to wear for months. Saw a comfy looking dress, bit plain though. I know, I thought. I can dress it up with a scarf. A fucking scarf! Scarves are so not me,. But I will, because it's a comfy dress, and bollocks to anyone who thinks it's all a bit dowdy. I'm dowdy from the feet up now anyway.

You start to take an interest in garden birds. DH and I sometimes update one another on what the robin has been doing lately.

You properly appreciate a really nice mug.

Oh stop!!😂😂

You appreciate a nice greetings card.

When the heel of one foot hursts and the toe joint of the other foot hurts.

When new look are selling very similar to the one you wore in 1999 to the grad ball that was also from new look.

You are the oldest in your team at work.

Movies you remember watching as new releases at the cinema are now getting remade.

When the wheelie bin goes out more than you do.

This. And I hate going out in the evenings. Any evening. 6pm drinks or tea, home for 8!

When you say to your kids 'When I was your age' or 'When I was a kid' and you get eyed with suspicion at the tales you tell of TV that wasn't 24/7 and mobile phones didn't exist!

When you don't shave your legs and pits every other day, more like every other week.

Your idea of a great night is going to bed early.

You are old when you get excited about household appliances. My favourite purchase is currently my carpet sweeper. Love it.

When doctors, teachers, policemen and even the freaking prime minister are younger than you.

When your teenage daughter plucks your many chin hairs out with tweezers because you can’t find your glasses so can’t see them.

You get excited about chutney.

When someone at work asks me when I qualified amd they exclaim "I wasn't even born then" (Bless their little hearts . the feckers)

Looking at shoes in Hotter thinking "Oh they look comfy"

What's a carpet sweeper??

Note to self: need a carpet sweeper

@Izzy24 and @bingotime, never mind the sagging skin all over (it comes to us all) - think sagging arse, stomach and the skin on the insides of your arm to name a few, I was also thinking of prolapses) note the use of the plural).
I'm more prone to them then other people as I'm hyper mobile, so my collagen isn't great, but post-menopause all women are more likely to have them than pre-menopause. I've had a prolapsed uterus, rectum, bladder and urethra. Some of them have been fixed, one of them can't be, and one repair has failed.
Besides all of that, there's the descending hairlines - the back of the neck (and my hairline at the front has receded), and pubic hair goes patchily bald, whilst being determined to populate your thighs.
How naïve was I? I thought that the worst of it would be wearing pop socks (guilty as charged).
Life's great, hey?

@ToastAndBeans

omg yes, police men are starting to look very young. That’s it I’m now officially old 😭 🤦‍♀️.